Consulting and freelance work

I am a freelance IT consultant and developer specialising in
operations-related topics. I typically help clients to ensure their
systems’ architecture meets scalability and security requirements –
most often in the role of architect or site reliability engineer.

While I used to focus primarily on consulting and development work,
some years ago I discovered – quite to my surprise – I really enjoy
teaching and have been doing workshops, seminars and talks ever since.

My main interests currently are distributed systems development
(mostly Ruby and Go), databases (usually PostgreSQL) and various
deployment-related topics such as containers (Kubernetes, rkt, Docker)
and orchestration. Also, I like to help clients sleep at night by
devising dependable backup and disaster recovery strategies as well as
sane provisioning and deployment schemes.

I typically use GNU/Linux professionally (I am a Debian and
Ubuntu contributor), but I have a soft spot for BSD and
OpenBSD in particular. I also enjoy working with functional
programming languages such as Haskell and Clojure in my spare
time.